Partners in Fun
Al Doan
al@rolling.fun
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of the biggest quilting company in the world. Creativity, Inc is an e-commerce giant at $100m+ annually. They bought a whole town.
Founder & (fmr) CEO of Missouri Star Quilt Co.
Chairman of the board of Creativity, Inc.
Angel Investor in 40+ cos.
Founder of Pretzel.io
Founder of Let’s Make Art
Owner/Pres Mgmt @ Harvard Business School
Info Systems & Political Science @ BYU Hawaii.
Built a suspension bridge after watching some Youtube videos.
Hear his guest appearance on My First Million.
Bo Fishback
bo@rolling.fun
Founder. Founder. Founder. Founder. Bo has been starting, scaling, and selling companies his entire career. He knows how to raise money, recruit, manage boards, and position for sale.
Founder of Zaarly (acquired by ASX:ART)
Founder of Orbis Biosciences (acq by Adare Pharma)
Angel investor in 30+ companies
VP Entrepreneurship Kauffman Foundation.
Founder Lightspeed Genomics (acq Biosearch)
Founder of early social network (acq $RENN)
2013 BTC buyer.
MBA @ Harvard Business School
Biomedical Engineering at SMU
Completed “impossible” Gallon Challenge, drinking a whole gallon of milk in an hour. It’s real. We saw it.
Eric Jorgenson
eric@rolling.fun
Collecting an audience of tech-focused builders, doers, and founders around the world. Writing, recording, publishing, and connecting since he was 17.
Author of Almanack of Naval Ravikant and Anthology of Balaji
CEO of Scribe Media
10 years of growth and strategy experience in startups.
Angel Investor in 5 cos.
20,000+ on his Smart Friends newsletter.
1 million readers on the Blog.
Podcast with 4k listeners/episode.
62k on Twitter.
GP Networks
Bo and Al both know the secret handshake from HBS.
Eric writes books read by hundreds of thousands of people, including many founders, investors, and startup people.
Al is in the Mormon Mafia.
The Kauffman Foundation connects entrepreneurs locally and globally.
In Kansas City, we see deals in the midwest others may not, but we invest globally thanks to our wide networks.
Techstars/StartupBootcamp connects us to founders all over the world.
Twitter has turned out extremely useful (sometimes).